Below are two videos about something that may or may not have
concerned you. It is about whaling. If it does not currently concern you
and has never concerned you, I challenge you to watch the following two
videos, and still feel at ease with yourself to sit back and continue
doing nothing about it.

The first video addresses "scientific research" as an excuse for what
in truth is commercial whaling by Japan, which kills 1,500-2,000 whales
of at least six species (Minke, Fin, Sperm, Sei, Bryde's and Humpback)
every year. It features an Australian journalist asking the Japanese
ambassador whether the Australians could kill a few Japanese people in
order to understand the Japanese people better. I challenge you to not
laugh out loud when you see it.

Now that you've had your laugh, it's time to get serious. The second
video is Reality TV at its most graphic. You will probably cry. I didn't
cry because as a child I was trained not to. But I'm doing something
about it, and I ask you to do the same.

It is very simple.

1. Open your local Yellow Pages to "Automobile - Dealers".

2. Call and/or write each Japanese car dealer saying that you will
not buy a Japanese automobile for as long as Japan persists with
whaling.

3. Pass this on.

That's it.

If people from every city do this, the head offices of Toyota and
Honda and Subaru will hear about it - an international boycott against
Japanese products - and they will in turn notify the Japanese government
about it.

We have tried demonstrating in front of Japanese consulates and
embassies, on grounds of cruelty and conservation, but the only thing
they can understand, or pay attention to, is economics.

This strategy is to pit huge Japanese industries against the small,
lingering, whaling industry. If we all do it, there should be no
contest.

The monstrous cruelty aside, whale and dolphin meat is overloaded with
toxins like mercury, dioxins and PCB. In order to sustain the whaling
industry, the Japanese whale meat industry is labeling supermarket whale
meat as "health food". In order to create a new generation of whale meat
consumers, the Japanese government is feeding toxic whale meat to young
children in their elementary school lunch programs.

The harpooned whale in Video #2 took longer than the
8-minute-footage-itself to die. Please give the whales at least 8
minutes of your time.

If because of the above description you would not even watch Video
#2, that's okay, as long as you do something.

Video #2 is not perfect. Japan kills one thousand whales in the
Antarctic Ocean every year, not 3,000. But one is one too many. Also, it
mentions Greenpeace and not Sea Shepherd, but is not about
organizations. It is about whales, about whaling, and about ourselves.